Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the release of the SEGA Genesis in North America, and perhaps in a slight nod to their former competition, Nintendo has released one of SEGA's more interesting titles from the platform's early days to the Virtual Console in The Revenge of Shinobi.
Back in the late 80's/early 90's, Shinobi was a fairly popular franchise, though not exactly SEGA's flagship. If Alex Kidd and Sonic were their Mario and Phantasy Star was their Zelda, then perhaps Shinobi could be considered on par with Metroid at the time, though the gameplay was really nothing alike.
The analogy would probably fall apart there, suffice to say that both were rather popular titles without ever being the title for their respective platforms. Read More